Ray Padgett’s Cover Me gives the prestige treatment to the humblest of album afterthoughts and concert crowd pleasers:  […]

One night soon after we moved to Atlanta, I was hanging out at the Graveyard Tavern, killing time […]

“Pretend,” we instruct our students, “that you have been hired by Fresno City to make postcards, visuals that […]

Don’t underestimate the Airplane, even if it’s easy to do. Sure, none of their other music exceeds the […]

Hip-hop’s founding myth places the culture’s birth at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, where on a summer […]

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This blog has never made a secret of its furtive love for the Purple One. He was one […]